Voices of Thunder - Works for Choir & Organ
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Voices of Thunder - Works for Choir & Organ
Magdalen College Choir, Oxford, Mark Williams (conductor)
[ Coro Magdalen / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 November 2024
Another triumph for the Magdalen musicians and an equally enjoyable experience from both choral and organ points of view." Gramophone Editor's Choice Jan 2025
Voices of Thunder features a range of spectacular choral pieces that showcase Magdalen College Chapel's new Eule organ.
Following on from Peace I leave with you, this new album combines the sublime voices of The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, with the new and exciting sonorities of the Eule organ. The recording includes music from Joseph Haydn to Judith Weir, as well as Arvo Pärt's atmospheric Beatitudes, Libby Larsen's playful I will sing and raise a psalm, and Hubert Parry's thunderous Blest Pair of Sirens.
The Eule organ was built by Herman Eule Orgelbau of Bautzen in Germany and is the first Eule organ of its kind to have been built in the UK for almost 100 years.
"The installation of a new pipe organ, like any long-awaited new arrival, is always best marked with some kind of celebratory fanfare such as this splendid, generously filled disc...Another triumph for the Magdalen musicians and an equally enjoyable experience from both choral and organ points of view." Gramophone Editor's Choice Jan 2025
Tracks:
EARLY
1. Come all you Worthy Gentlemen 1:25
2. Nova, nova, AVE fit ex EVA 1:20
3. Goday, Sir Cristemas 1:47
4. Ave Maria. Hail Blessed Flower 1:39
5. Nowell. Out of your Sleep Arise 2:00
6. Lully, lulla, thou Little Tiny Child (The Coventry Carol) 3:16
7. Remember, O thou man 2.59
8. Lullaby, my Sweet Little Baby 4.33
9. This Day Christ was Born (A Carol for Christmas Day) 2:53
VICTORIAN
10. As Jacob with Travel was Weary One Day (Jacob's Ladder) 2:21
11. The First Nowell 4:34
12. Why, most Highest? (Jesus in the Manger) 2:37
13. The Virgin Stills the Crying (Cradle-song of the Blessed Virgin) 2:17
14. The Moon Shines Bright 2:04
15. I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing in 1.57
16. What Child is this? 2.05
17. See, Amid the Winter's Snow (Hymn for Christmas Day) 4:49
18. Sleep! Holy Babe! (Words: E. Caswall; Music: John B. Dykes) 3:44
19. Good Christian Men, Rejoice 1:45
20. Good King Wenceslas 2.38
21. A Babe is Born, all of a Maid 2:16
22. All this Night Bright Angels Sing (Carol for Christmas Day) 2:14
23. Here we Come a-wassailing (The Wassail Song ) 2:18
24. We Three Kings of Orient are 3:40
MODERN
25. A New Year Carol 2.13
26. I Sing of a Maiden 2.36
27. Lullay my Liking 3.04
28. Of One that is so Fair and Bright 1.34
29. This have I done for my True Love 4.48
